Please join The Orange Rose in celebrating the talented writers we have nominated for literary awards.
2027
Best of the Net
Poetry
- “The Cabaret at the End of the World” by Özge Lena
- “Huntress” by Maureen Riggi
- “Creation Myth as Honey Mushroom” by Mary Simmons
- “Green Chapel, Cat’s Eye” by Sean Wang
- “Gone” by Nicholas Olah
- “Heritage (After Walt Whitman)” by Albert Hwang
Fiction
CNF
Art
- “Collapse” by Sara Jorgensen
- “Sapphire: Observation 01″ by Jacelyn Yap
- “Butterfly Effect” by James Mellor
2026
Pushcart Prize
Poetry
- “indigo” by Sofía Aguilar
- “What You Don’t Learn as a New York Catholic” by Colleen S. Harris
- “No Cure Yet for Oak Wilt” by Jonathan Fletcher
Prose